Rhythmbox plugin: A method to sift and remove duplicate songs?

[freakalad]

However it's not possible to get the similiarity of two songs by generating the MD5 sum.

Well, it uses some sort of hashing algorithm to compare songs (think it even references some sort of online library).

What I do know is that it's very successfully found the same songs with different names in different locations (and even sometimes different lengths & bit-rates, but the latter I think may be done by filename or tag comparison)

Whatever the case, it's a remarkable piece of software, for a modest price what it does for you, and I've not found anything that remotely comes close to it in any other software or platform.
Theoretically, SingBird may eventually be able to achieve this with similar results, but that's still a long way off

[scrawl]

Alright, here's what I'm currently at. It's able to find duplicates with similiar audio tags, and remove them. In the near future I'll implement a md5sum of parts of the file, so it can detect them independant on the tags.

How to use it: Unpack the attached archive to $HOME/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins (create the folder if it doesn't exist yet) and activate "duplicate finder" in Rhythmbox plugins. Then select Tools -> Find duplicates in the menu.

I appreciate any feedback (Please tell me, if it works for you)

If anyone wants to improve the comparison algorithm (it's quite slow and dirty at the moment) feel free to submit code at https://code.launchpad.net/~scrawl/r...e-finder/trunk

[freakalad]

Sweet!

nice 1, thanks!

[scrawl]

So, does it work for you?

[scrawl]

I've just done a minor bug fix (files wont disappear from the duplicate list if you choose to delete them), attached new archive.

and, here's a screenshot, as a "proof" that it works

[freakalad]

So, does it work for you?

note quite, but I still need to do some more testing

[freakalad]

MM is great, because it is a media manager for large volumes, not merely for locating duplicates.

If all you want to do is locate duplicates, the are better apps for win; the best I've found thus far is Beyond Compare.

But this is a POSIX world, and as such the "correct" way of locating duplicates is probably using diff

[Rob T]

It apears to work, but whenever i click on the move to trash icon, it just closes my rthmbox alltogether :@

[scrawl]

Console output?

I guess it's a Rhythmbox bug. Because whatever a plugin does, Rhythmbox should not crash...

[nuzeb]

Nice idea. I'll give it a try!